($1,449) Movers From Minneapolis, MN to Yonkers, NY

What to know before moving from Minneapolis to Yonkers

Moving from Minneapolis to Yonkers means adjusting to a different pace of life — and a different price tag. On average, it costs significantly more to live in Minneapolis than in Yonkers, making the move an opportunity for many to enjoy a lower cost of living.

Check out how Minneapolis compares to Yonkers so you know what to expect before you relocate:

• Rent prices in Yonkers are 82% higher than in Minneapolis, which means you’ll have less money in your pocket each month.
• In terms of homeownership, you’ll be able to get more for your money in Minneapolis.
  Home prices in Yonkers are 105.4% higher than in Minneapolis.
• Income in Yonkers is 10.1% higher than in Minneapolis, so you could earn more for doing the same job. The top employers in Yonkers include Leake and Watts Services, Yonkers Contracting, and St. John's Riverside Hospital.
• The cost of living for a single person in Yonkers is 21.8% lower than in Minneapolis. This includes routine expenses like utilities, groceries, clothing, and transportation.
• If you’re moving your family to Yonkers, keep in mind that your living expenses could increase. The cost of living for a family in Yonkers is 40.5% higher than in Minneapolis.
• The unemployment rate in Yonkers is 68.89% higher than in Minneapolis.
• You’ll spend less on retail and restaurants in Yonkers, since the city’s sales taxes in Yonkers are 1.66% lower than in Minneapolis.
• State income taxes in Yonkers are 10.66% higher than in Minneapolis.

To put this in perspective, you would need around $2,346.15 in Yonkers to maintain the same standard of life that you can have with $3,000.00 in Minneapolis.

How life is different in Minneapolis vs. Yonkers

• Yonkers might offer you a slower pace of life, since the population is about 50% less than Minneapolis.
• Your access to buses, shuttles, trams, or trains in Yonkers will be about the same as it currently is in Minneapolis. The cities share a similar public transportation score, which means their transit systems are comparable in terms of how connected they are, how often they provide service, and how close they are to jobs, housing, retail and food stores, and other important locations.
• You’ll find Yonkers to be about as walkable as Minneapolis. The two cities have similar walkability scores of 69 and 71 respectively out of 100 in terms of how close housing is to businesses, recreational facilities, and jobs.
• You probably won’t see as many cycling lanes or off-road trails in Yonkers, which is ranked as less bike-friendly than Minneapolis. While Minneapolis has a bike-friendliness score of 83 out of 100, Yonkers earned a 37. Scores are based on factors like whether a city accommodates cyclists on major roadways, how often people bike to work, and how many steep hills it has.
• Yonkers has a lower crime rate than Minneapolis based on scores of 28.34 and Minneapolis's 56.06, respectively. The crime index shows how safe a city is perceived to be. So, a lower score generally means less crime.
• You might find more confidence in your overall safety in Yonkers than in Minneapolis, based on Yonkers’s safety index of 71.66 versus 43.94 for Minneapolis. With this index, higher scores indicate more safety, particularly around how comfortable residents feel walking alone during the day and at night.
• The air quality in Yonkers and Minneapolis is generally the same (Good). Cities with good to moderate ratings have clean or acceptable air quality, with the possibility of small pollutants affecting people with certain health conditions like asthma. Anything beyond the moderate rate means increased impact on residents.